COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION WEEK
December 5th-12th
GETTING STUDENTS EXCITED ABOUT CODING
Computer Science Education Week or the Hour of Code is a great time to let students explore your curriculum while also learning about coding! Below are links to some great resources for lessons and tools to help plan a lesson with code! After all, you never know which student sitting in your class might someday want to be a chief technology officer! Have fun, VTSD!
FAMILY STEM NIGHT
RESOURCES
Hour of Code - Join the Hour of Code today with this link https://hourofcode.com/us
CODE.ORG - Plenty of great resources organized by grade! K-5 LESSONS 6-12 LESSONS
CODE COMBAT - Do you love RPG's? Do you love multi-player games? Do you want to code? Code combat is for you!
Scratch - From MIT, lots of great K-12 resources https://scratch.mit.edu/ideas
Codesters - breaks down coding lessons to holidays, subjects, and more https://www.codesters.com/curriculum/intro-to-codesters-2018/
CS First - From Google, full curriculum and lessons for coding for education https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/c/cs-first/en/curriculum.html
Tynker - fun ways to learn coding for ages 5-18 https://www.tynker.com/
while True: learn() - okay this one is a paid game on Steam...but I threw it in here because it is about a coding CAT that learns about machine learning and AI! while Ture: learn()
BRAINPOP VIDEO: WHY CODE
Also, BrainPop has some great tools that involve coding but are also cross-curricular! Check out their Creative Coding now for ideas! Great for K-5 ideas!
Computer Science Education Week Website
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IRON MAN & A.I.
Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and help you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is useful in all domains. - Bill Gates
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